Saturday, October 17, 2009 - Liv Boeree
Well where can I start? I’m sat in Amsterdam airport after a somewhat hellish, screaming child filled ten hour flight back from a certain beautiful little island. The past ten days has been my personal heaven – the Ultimatebet Aruba Classic. After a riotous few days in Amsterdam with various UB pros we arrived in the balmy tropics and got straight to the most important part – locating the rest of the team and hitting the bar.
The first full day was spent on the beach and warming up my tubing skills for the inevitable bouts of last longer bets that were to bound to occur throughout the week. A number of us (including team members Matt Graham, Roothlus, Tiffany and Billy) rented a boat and we went for a very beery cruise involving diving competitions and trying to swim back to the boat against a very strong ocean current.
That night was the opening party including all the free booze and food UB could throw at the guests, and which inevitably ended up in everyone getting thrown in the pool. Lacey Jones and I had a chicken fight aboard Matt Vengrin and Matt Graham (we won, of course), and Phil managed to get through about $10,000 getting ladies to jump in the pool naked.
Lacey and I also got $1000 for one lucky guy who was the first one to jump in naked also… gotta keep the balance between the sexes!
Monday was relatively quiet as it was day 1A, and half of the pros, myself included, had been scheduled for a new UB photoshoot which I can’t wait to see the results of. Tuesday was day 1B, which was my first day of play. I had the Great Poker Ho on my table, who was lauding it up the way only Ho can, rallying the table and generally creating mayhem with some huge pots. Sadly things didn’t go Ho’s way once Robbie Cunningham came to the table and started crushing it utterly. I swear to God he had Jacks or better every other hand for two hours, and played them tricky enough too, knocking Ho out in the process. An interesting (and kinda costly hand) for me was when I had around starting stack and the blinds were 100 200. Robbie makes it 525 in the hijack, I have queens and make it 1600 in the cutoff. However, the supertight girl to my left who hadn’t played many hands at all goes to call his initial raise before I even get chance to act. When I say wait a minute, and do my threebet she instacalls behind anyway. The SB, who has been pretty LAG and was “internetting it up” as they like to say now does a really weird min raise making it 2700. Robbie now says “what the hell do I do?” and flats. I now ask the same question, and chose to call behind too (in hindsight should’ve jammed here, I mean, Laggy guy could have anything, Robbie or the girl, if they have me beat here are reraising) and the girl flats. The board comes A j 10 and Robbie bets out 2/3, I muck, the girl mucks and the SB stuffs it in with… A-10. What does the Cunningham have? Jacks of course.
My day went pretty much downhill from there and I got short after whiffing AK three times, and then found 10s vs QQs which sent me packing to the beach for more fun and frolics that I’ll document next week… tough life!
Tags: Adam "Roothlus" Levy, Amsterdam, Aruba, aruba classic, Billy Koop, Lacey Jones, Matt Graham, matt vengrin, P0ker H0, Phil Hellmuth, Poker Poker Poker, Robbie Cunningham, Tiffany "Tiffany M" Michelle, ub, Ultimate Bet
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - Scott Ian
I can’t believe summer is over. Granted, I live in LA so it’s never really over, it’s more the idea of summer being over. You know that horrible “back to school” feeling? Not that I’m going back to school and if anything I worked harder this summer than I have in years so, don’t listen to me. I think the insanity of my summer may have done permanent damage!
Going into the WSOP main event I knew what I was in for and I committed to it. Last year I didn’t get to play the main event and this year it literally took an act by the scheduling Gods and the planets aligning just right for me to play. I had this insane window where I would be arriving in Vegas from Anthrax’s European tour hours before the start of day 1D, flying to Tulsa OK to play a show the day after day 2B and flying right back the morning of day 3. If I were to make it to the final nine, I would be on a plane as soon as it ended back to Sweden to play a show the next day. How this all worked out is beyond me and I wasn’t sure if I could mentally and physically do it. Of course I could bust on day 1 and everything would be so much easier but the whole thing had this “meant to be” vibe about it so I committed to getting through the week and playing my game no matter what.
Amazingly, everything went according to plan. After finishing day 2B at 1:30AM I was at the airport by 4:30AM for my flight (through Dallas) to Tulsa. That all worked and I played the show, kicked some OK ass and was back at the airport at 4:30AM for my flight (through Denver) to Vegas. Not only were my flights on time, they were early and I got back to Vegas hours before the noon start of day 3. My nightmare of sitting in Denver airport as my stack blinded off didn’t come true.
Now I was about to play day 3 of the main event having not slept in almost 48 hours. The mind is an amazing thing because I stayed focused and locked in all day and at the end of the marathon I had 152K going into day 4. I had no trouble sleeping that night.
Bubble day was a mix of anxiety and excitement for me. Of course I was excited to make the money but I had this feeling gnawing at me that I didn’t have much left. When it got to hand for hand it killed me. The slow pace for over an hour knocked me on my ass and my focus was gone. I could feel the last three weeks catching up to me like a locomotive and I was going down. I think making the money in a way was bad for my game because I lost the tension I needed to remain locked in.
I busted out shortly after when I ran my J7 into AA. I was in the BB (6K). The SB limped and I checked. Flop comes 10 7 2 rainbow. He bets 6500 and I think he’s lying so I re-raise to 17,500 with 59K behind. He shoves. I should’ve folded but like I said, I’d lost my focus and I called. He turns over AA! A 9 came on the turn increasing my outs but the 4 on the river sunk me and that was that. 637th out of 6484. I was stoked. A sense of relief washed over me as I left the Rio and a huge feeling of accomplishment. I cashed in my first main event. I set my mind to making it through the week and I did. Would I have liked to have gone deeper? Of course. Next year it’s on. Thanks to everyone at UB for making my life easier all week as well. Your support was invaluable!!
Last week UB hosted my second “Home Game” and it was a blast!! Vinnie Paul was first out for the second time in a row I believe. And that’s no knock on Vinnie’s game. Just bad luck. Guy rivered a flush against him. Kirk Hammett was tearing it up most of the game, taking down pot after pot and was the chipleader for a while. He lost a big pot, KK vs AA if I remember correctly and then got whittled away. I thought he was a lock for top 3. I had a crazy hand against Phil. I’ll let the picture do the talking!!! Greg Tribbett and I made the final table and finished 4th and 5th . Adam “Roothlus” Levy finished third, getting knocked out by the same guy that busted me and both of us against a set of 5’s!! BeantownBoy77 finished 2nd and won $1000 TD’s. Congrats to SMGKAG for taking it down and winning the Aruba package.
We’re planning Home Game #3 for the end of October. There will be some new faces there this time as well. Hope to see you there!!!
Cheers,
Scott
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - Billy Kopp
As the newest Ultimate Bet team pro, I’m excited to share my first blog with all of you. For those of you who don’t know, my name is Billy Kopp and I reside in Erlanger, Kentucky. I am twenty three years old and have been playing online poker for the past five years. I got my start into poker by playing small home games with friends. While going to college at the University of Kentucky, I began to play primarily online. I had success and was able to meet other successful players online who helped me to advance my game.
This summer I made a transition into playing more live events. I had a second place finish in the 5k New Orleans WSOP Circuit event for a nice six figure score. After that I proceeded to play in several WSOP events. I was fortunate enough to get 8th in the 5k no limit event and then 11th in the 10k pot limit event. Finally, I finished in the summer out with a 12th place finish in the main event for a little under $900,000. I can proudly say that Ultimate Bet was by far the best site for me to represent. Due to the help of my agency, Suited Connections, I was able to land a long-term deal with the site. I have played on UB for years and have had success in the biggest multi table tournaments they have to offer including a win in their Sunday major. To date, I have never given substantial time to playing cash games. Now, I will be playing cash games along with multi-table tournaments on Ultimate Bet under the name “billy_kopp”.
Lots of people have been asking me what my next live event will be. I am currently in the process of moving to Las Vegas, so the next event for me will probably be the $5,000 main event in Biloxi, Mississippi at the Beau Rivage in September, followed by the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic in October. Once everything is settled in Vegas I will be playing more live events. On a side note, I want to wish my friend and fellow colleague Adam “Roothlus” Levy good luck in the Legends of Poker tournament going on at the Bicycle Casino right now. Hopefully he can bring home another win for the UB team.
I can’t wait to meet the other team pros in Aruba. I have never played in the Aruba Classic and wish everyone who plays the best of luck. For all of you reading this, I hope to get to play with all of you on the site at some point soon!
Until next time,
Billy Kopp
Tags: Adam "Roothlus" Levy, Aruba, aruba classic, Billy Kopp, las vegas, Legends of Poker, Online Poker, ub, UB Team, Ultimate Bet, WSOP
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - Roothlus
Hey guys. It’s been a wee bit since I last blogged. Not going to lie, I’ve been a blogging hiatus. The WSOP kind of totally consumed me but don’t fret my blogettes, I’m back! This year’s WSOP was definitely one I’d like to forget. I played 21 events with only 2 cashes for a whopping total of $10k. I will say this though, I definitely ran bad but I wasn’t too happy with my play this year. I had a great year last year with 6 cashes in 17 events so the fact that I didn’t have a great WSOP wasn’t a huge surprise to me. I do think I learned a bit and improved my game throughout it, which is all you can do when trying to get through a rough patch like this.
I saw the Main Event as a last chance to salvage a subpar year but that didn’t go well either. Although, I definitely played excellent throughout the tournament my bustout hand was not my finest moment. I didn’t make a mistake in the hand but I accidentally angleshot and accidentally slowrolled a guy in the same hand. I stress that it was completely unintentional and I would never do that to anyone period. I decided to setmine with 66 against a tight good player and the flop came A96 rainbow. The raiser bet 6800 and when I went to call an extra 5k chip stuck to my fingers and I made it 11800. I was forced to make it 13600. I didn’t mean to do it but it accidentally worked out. So I go back to listening my music and I expect him to take a while. About five minutes go by and I look at him and it looks like he’s in the tank and he never motioned like he was shoving or anything. I look at the dealer and he gives me a blank stare. Two more minutes go by and the dealer motions to me that it’s on me. Apparently he went all in within 30 seconds of my minraise but I never noticed it and everyone thought I was in deep thought. I say to the guy, “I’m so sorry, I call” and flip over my set of sixes. The guy says “It’s cool man” and flips over a set of Aces. LOL. Funny how it worked out. Definitely one of the more interesting hands I’ve ever played.
I took it easy the end of July and wanted nothing to do with poker. At the very end of July I moved to Los Angeles finally. I’m rooming with another poker player, Amak316, and a good friend of mine. I’m ecstatic for the move and I know that I will really enjoy it. We decided to go to San Diego for a few days and I’m not sure which city is better but man is it a close decision. I’ve even been a decent sleep schedule compared to my Las Vegas schedule. On a good day I’d be waking up at 12PM in Las Vegas. That’s me sleeping in LA. And yes, I know 12PM is still super late but I’m a poker player, whaddya want from me?
Last Sunday I played had a pretty good win of $38k when I won the 50 rebuy. I’m not joking the person I played heads up could’ve been in a freeroll and been a losing player hah. Even though I really didn’t have to put too much effort into heads up, a win is a win! And there’s no better feeling than winning a tournament. I’m playing the Bike WPT next week and hopefully I’ll carry my online success over to that. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed. I’m definitely due to make a big live run before the end of the year. So wish me luck! Next time I talk to you I’ll have a WPT win under my belt 
. Peace guys.
–Adam “Roothlus” Levy
P.S. Look for upcoming training videos of me at DeepstackUniversity.com
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Friday, July 17, 2009 - P0ker J0
Hello to all in UB land:
This week flew by faster than any week in history. I have no idea how it happened but the days just seemed to melt into one another. Well the WSOP final table is confirmed and what a final table it is. All those nail biting hours watching the players slowly drop off until the final 9 seemed to take forever. I can only imagine the emotions flying around. So now we wait and wait until it gets cold again and the final table to play out. Wow another poker season in Vegas over.
Now we look forward to Aruba. Wow again – it just seems like I got home from Aruba. As most of you know, being our signature event, Aruba is more like a family reunion than a poker tournament. This year will prove to be even bigger and better as we celebrate UB’s 10th anniversary. My entire pro line up will be in attendance so it should be a blast. I am waiting for Miss C to get back from Vegas so I can get her drunk enough to consider booking Bon Jovi as the band! Keep your fingers and toes crossed for me folks! This could be a hard sell! Stay tuned for more details as they are bound to emerge in the coming weeks.
Speaking of fun – I think I watched one of the funniest videos ever last night at the expense of one of my pros – Adam “roothlus” Levy. Check this out – you will die laughing. Knowing him like I do makes this video even funnier. I’m sure you will laugh as hard as I did – and don’t forget to tease him about it when you see him at the tables.
Anyway we have LOTS of fun announcements next week so stay tuned and put your seatbelts on – it’s gonna be a fun ride!
Until next week – P0ker J0 out! xoxoox
Tags: Adam "Roothlus" Levy, adam levy, Aruba, Bon Jovi, WSOP
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 - Gene Bromberg
The $1,500 No-Limit Hold-Em event was nearing the bubble and I ran over to the Brasilia Room with my camera. I knew that both Adam “Roothlus” Levy and Brandon Cantu were still very much alive in the event–in fact, Adam twittered just a few minutes earlier that he’d won a big pot with pocket Kings against A-K that had probably moved him to the head of the chip counts. And as I double-timed through the hallways I looked up at the flatscreen scoreboard on the wall and saw that he spoke the truth:
Levy #1, Cantu #6. And as I walked into the Brasilia Room during hand-for-hand play it seemed that Brandon wasn’t content with his current standing, as I found him stacking a pot as the dealers stood to indicate their table had completed their hand. “OK Brandon, stop bullying,” a player at the table said, advice Cantu didn’t seem inclined to follow.
I stood off to the side as they finished hand-for-hand play (two players busted at the same time and so split the prize money for 270th place) and found Roothlus staring across the table at a player with all his chips in the middle. Roothlus had chips in there too and I saw that his pocket eights were trailing his opponent’s pocket Jacks. The Jacks held up and within seconds of my arrival he’d lost a decent chunk of his stack. “Now they want to take my picture,” he said as I guiltily pointed my camera his way and snapped off a few shots as the hand came to an unhappy end.
According to PokerNews Adam still has around 110K, still putting him within striking distance of the chip lead, and Cantu I think has far more than the 86,600 PokerNews is giving him credit for (he tweeted an hour ago that he had around 135K as the bubble burst). So Adam took a hit, Brandon took a bunch of pots, and both Team UB players are primved to make a deep run in this event.
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Monday, February 9, 2009 - Roothlus
Hey peeps. It’s me, your resident pro Roothlus. It’s my last weekend in Orlando since I’m in the process of moving out to Las Vegas until the end of the World Series. I have wanted to move to the West Coast for years and I’m finally doing it. The West Coast is for me and I’m comin’! With the LAPC, the Bay 101, the Wynn Classic, WPT Champs and the WSOP on the west coast all within the next six months, it makes sense for me to move there. I don’t mind traveling but I really just need to have a home base on the West Coast. After the WSOP I’m planning on moving out to LA which will hopefully be my permanent residence. Alright so enough about that.
The FTOPS started on Wednesday so the tournament fields have gotten bigger which has helped the fields on other sites, Ultimate Bet included. The $1k on Wednesdays at 8:30PM EST got up to 216 players this week because of the FTOPS and so did the 9:00PM $200 sniper. It had 560 players in it this week. This is good for UltimateBet. Now, I just wish there was a tournament series every week! I think in the 2 FTOPS I’ve played so far I’ve lasted a total of, wait for it, 30 hands lol. I got owned by this donk in the $200 NL in back to back hands to bust before late registration was even done. Now, that’s impressive! I somehow outdid myself on Thursday when I played the $200 PLO8 tournament. I woke up in the middle of late registration 20 minutes into the tourney which I then didn’t realize for another 10 minutes that it wasn’t PLO and that it was PLO8. That’s what happens when you roll out of bed and start playing all groggy. Woops.
I took Friday and Saturday off and just enjoyed the downtime. Well, I wouldn’t exactly call it downtime. I went with some friends and my bro Justin a.k.a Roothlus Jr. to Tampa for this parade called Gasparilla. It’s like a toned down Mardi Gras but still a blast. It was exactly what I needed considering I’ve been grinding at home for the past two weeks so having social interaction was very refreshing. That’s definitely a downside of being an online poker player. You have to really try hard to create your own social circles because you aren’t around people besides your roommates on a day-to-day basis. That’s another reason why I’m moving to Vegas. I know soooo many people out there.
Sunday I was happy to be back at home and ready for a good grind session. Once again with the FTOPS there were massive fields all around including the $200k and $100k on UB. They both surpassed their guarantees as well. I ended up having a pretty good but heartbreaking day for a Sunday. I stone bubbled the FTOPS $240 6max which was $170k and this was the 2nd week in a row I bubbled a huge tournament. But, this is what I signed up for when I started playing tournament poker. I live for these ups and downs. In some screwed up way I’m kind of addicted to them. I could totally go off on a tangent about poker and my thoughts on it but let’s leave that for another blog hehe. Well, that’s all for now. See you guys at the tables.
Tags: Adam "Roothlus" Levy, FTOPS, Online Poker, PLO, world series of poker, WPT, Wynn Classic
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Thursday, February 5, 2009 - UB Marketing
The turnout for the last Ultimate Bet Blog Tournament was so great that we had to increase the registration limit the day of the event to keep up with the overwhelming demand. You guys like your freerolls! We’re happy to announce that due to popular demand, we’ve decided to make these tournaments a more regular event. From this month on you can mark it in your calendar that the Ultimate Bet Blog Tournament will run on the last Wednesday of each month. That means the next one is coming up on Wednesday February 25th 2009.
What do you have to do to gain entry to this event? It’s simple, as a loyal UB Blog reader you’re about to gain all the insight you need. Simply enter the code UBBLOGaew0r7q4pwn and you’re IN! Why are we giving you so much advanced notice? Because we want you to be as mentally prepared as possible to maximize your rewards and your FUN! That’s why we encourage you to check out the wealth of poker strategy related information available to you here on this blog. The Ultimate Bet pros regularly blog here and most of the time it’s about POKER STRATEGY! For example, each week we run a regular blog post called ‘Ask a Pro’. You can ask your questions directly to some of the biggest, baddest names in Poker. We’ve had Annie Duke, HollywoodDave, Scott Ian, Shawn Rice, Phil Hellmuth, Adam ‘Roothlus’ Levy, and later today, Tracy ‘FATCATS’ Scala. So during your tournament preparation, check out these insightful posts and learn a thing or two…..OR TEN! As well, each week you’ve got the chance to ‘Ask a Pro’ the question of your choice.
So get ready for the next Ultimate Bet Blog Tournament and check back here for updates. We haven’t finalized the payout structure yet, but rest assured, it will be good. Good luck at the tables!
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 - smokin_aces
Last week we announced that Adam “Roothlus” Levy was going to answer the Pro Question this week. We received one question so potentially enlightening, Adam just HAD to choose it.
The question was posed by paulodiablo and is as follows.
“Hey Roothlus, I’ve got a couple of questions for you. You’re pretty well known in the online community for your success at tournament play. What’s a good ROI and in-the-money statistic for a decent winning tournament player online… or what should a player be aspiring for statistically? Also when you were crafting your game, how did you go about assessing your own gaps and weaknesses, and put together a plan to remedy them?”
And here is Adam ‘Roothlus’ Levy’s response.
“Hey paulodiablo,
Thanks for the question. I’ll do my best to answer it. While I can give you a ballpark figure, there really is no correct answer as to when an ROI(return on investment) starts becoming a ‘good’ ROI. I’d say that if you have more than a 40% ROI over a decent sample size that’s a good ROI. In the past games were a little bit softer so I would’ve said 50% 2 years ago but nowadays with more people having an understanding of the game, things have gotten a little tougher. A good ITM (in-the-money) would be 15% although theoretically you could have a 40% ITM rate and still have a negative ROI. So what I’m getting at is, your ROI is your bottom line and is all that should matter. Yes, looking at your ITM and other stats are fun to look at but nothing is more truthful on how much you make than your ROI.
When I was coming up through the ranks circa 2005 I would constantly watch the top players at the time and see what they did that I didn’t. I’d also talk to many players about the game. One thing you can do to point out some of your leaks is review hand histories and see if there was anything you could’ve done differently. Sometimes I would ask players their opinions of me just to get some outside perspective. In order to improve as a poker player you must be humble enough to admit that you need to improve. Sounds kind of obvious but ego can get in the way of things sometimes. Hope this answered your questions and good luck at the tables.
–Adam Levy a.k.a Roothlus”
A big thanks goes out to both paulodiablo and Adam Levy for being a part of this week’s Ask A Pro.
Be sure to check back tomorrow, and every Friday afternoon to find out who next weeks ‘Ask A Pro’ guest will be.
GL
Aces
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Monday, December 15, 2008 - Roothlus
I’ve been in Las Vegas for the past week playing the Five Diamond Classic preliminary events before the big show starts tomorrow, the $15k WPT. I was able to cash my first tournament (the $3k) but have since bricked out the three $5ks. The fields are way better than in October when Festa Lago was going on. I think with the combination of it being in October, it being right after the economy went into serious recession, and it going on during other events, the fields were so bad. The three $5ks this time got 141, 170, and 240 respectively which is a stark contrast from the bleak fields of Festa. I think all 3 $5ks combined barely had more than the last Five Diamond $5k. This is healthy for poker. I’m thinking the main event will get upwards of 450.
The $3k event was my best shot to make some real cheese but I found myself extremely carddead very late in the tournament. This is where you ask how card dead was I. I was so card dead that I needed a defibrillator to revive the deck. Heyyyooo. I know I know, bad joke. But who cares, it’s my blog. Anyways, I got in all in with AQo on the bb with 28k at 2k 4k against Amit Makitja’s Kjo. He hit a K, then a Jack, then a K and I was out. That’s a full house for all you poker n00bs out there. Still not bad to cash my first tournament.
The first $5k wasn’t too much fun. I maybe should not have played the $5k because it was right after the $3k and I had stayed up until 4AM the night before grinding that tourney into 17th place. I was playing fine but I soon found out that I was easily tiltable that day. David Pham was on my left, not a problem. Right off the bat he tried to 3-bet me when I raised to assert his dominance as the best tournament player on the planet. Well, he’s pretty close to, if not the best so I guess he has a right to try to show the person on his right who’s boss. But I wasn’t having it so I 4-bet him with A9o. He deliberated and called. Flop came KK4r. I bet 1800, he folded claiming he had Jacks. At the table I was acknowledging his statement but in my head I was like “yea right bud, I’d give you Q10s at best”. I doubled up early on when I hit trips on a 774dd board against J8dd and held. I was chilling at 30k at 50/100. Played some pots here and there while David Pham busted to Elky and they moved in Chad “Lilholdem954” Batista to my table. Bust one sicko, bring in another. Needless to say it was not an easy table. Anyways, after David busted they moved in this guy who was playing every pot and reraising a ton. He was really frustrating because I had no idea who he was and couldn’t tell if he was really good or really bad or a bad player doing good things. Eventually I 4-bet him with 77 to his 3-bet and he called with Jacks. Even sicker, I turned my 7 and he rivered the Jack. So that stung a bit. Shorty thereafter, I was raising 56dd with 14k at 100/200 UTG to 600 and he reraised me in UTG+1 to 2k. I called because I was a tiltbox that day and the flop came 847. LOLOL Really??? The flop went check check and the turn came a King where we got it in and he had AK. Fast forward 2 hours later I found myself with 35k at 300 600 and I flat a tight guy’s raise with AQo. This guy to my left squeezes and I call. He has AK and I double him up. The very next hand I get AQo again and he 3 bets me and I shove. He calls with 55. I brick out and I just went from 35k to out in 2 hands. Well, that was fun.
The 2nd 5k I got 40th in. I got up to 40k and was straight crusing when I got into a 50k flip at 200 400 and lost it on the river. Booooo. Grinded back by battling hard but the blinds started escalating and I found myself at 24k at 800/1600. Button raised to 5k and I shipped with Qjss and he had AKo. Flop even came 367ss and I bricked out. Booooo once again.
Thursday was the 3rd 5k and I played pretty well in this one as well although I was playing kind of bad early on but calmed myself down and after the first break I was fine. I built up to about 20k then won a flip against a AQo with JJ and found myself at 40k. Then I called with top pair against a bare flush draw and held to get up to a very nice stack of 60k at 300 600. That was my highest point and it was pretty much all downhill from there. I gave Elky 10k on a flip, then raise/folded a few times and found myself at 36k going into 600/1200. At 600/1200 I shoved KJdd into AKo after being carddead and having to raise/fold a few more times. It gets frustrating when you have to raise/fold knowing this specific person either has the hand or is not capable of shoving or reraising me light. Oh well, that’s how things go. Needless to say, I’m happy with my performance. Obviously I could’ve used a little more luck late in these tourneys but that’s the way it goes.
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